The Trump administration is temporarily loosening shipping laws as part of an effort to lower gasoline and other commodity prices amid the conflict with Iran, though the effort may only have a small impact. The administration is issuing a 60-day waiver of the Jones Act, according to a Wednesday post from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The Jones Act is a 100-year-old law that requires shipping between U.S. ports to be conducted by U.S.-flagged ships. Read More: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5789557-iran-war-jones-act-gas-prices/ #trump #iran #gasprices #whitehouse
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The Iran War entered its nineteenth day on Wednesday with President Trump threatening on Truth Social to “finish off” what he said was “left of the Iranian Terror State.” In the same post, he expressed his frustration with what he called “our non-responsive “Allies,”’ who have so far resisted Trump’s calls to join a coalition to re-open the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s South Pars gas field, the world’s largest natural gas reserve, was targeted with airstrikes on Wednesday morning. An Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post that the attack was coordinated between the U.S. and Israel. Iran responded by threatening strikes on Saudi Arabia’s Samref Refinery and its Jubail Petrochemical Complex, the UAE’s Al Hasan Gas…Open
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